Category: Web Apps

The Azure Resource Graph is attractive to me for its ability to query Azure resources at scale. I find this relevant in situations where you are managing a large number of subscriptions, resource groups and resources. And you are in situations to analyze and report on them. Without Azure Resource Graph, I would use Azure …

In setting up an application with appliances that provide protections from cyber threats, it is always necessary to have penetration testing and monitoring throughout the solution's lifecycle management. I will demonstrate the following scenario: Protect your web app using Azure Application Gateway’s Web Application Firewall features. Enable and configure the WAF The web app is …

In my blog post Super Cheap Azure Web Site using Azure CDN, I have written about setting up a very cost-effective approach of serving up an Azure Web App using Azure CDN as a form of proxy. Scenario Load test Azure Web App in free tier using Azure CDN S1 tier. Azure CDN endpoint A …

In planning to host a very low traffic web site, I find Azure Web App to be expensive compared to other managed hosting providers. The cheapest App Service pricing option is the Free tier. But these do not support https and custom domains. Even B1 Basic is a bit pricey at $81CAD/month if you hosting …

I will give a detailed look at the configuration and operation of auto-scaling in my Azure app service plan. Along with my comments and experiences. I have an Azure App Service Plan with 1 Core / 3GB RAM with one web app deployed. Although you can have many web apps in the same plan to …

In the Part 1 blog post, I have shown configuration of auto scale of 2 auto-scale profiles. I will show the operation of scaling out and scaling in. Upon a load test to simulate high load on the app service to trigger the auto-scale, here are the timelines and operations of the auto scale out …

In continuation from my blog post Visual Studio 2017 Load Testing of an Azure Web App with Application Insights Part 1 of 2 , I have shown the web app and azure environment setup that is prepared for a load test of 10,000 simulated users. In this post, I will show the execution, some of the …